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ALL WHOM- IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, HENRY KEWLEY, of Perry, in the county of Lake, and State of Ohio, have invented an improved Machine for Baking and Loading Hay; and I do hereby declare that the following is Irfull and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and which are numbered respectively 1, 2, 3, and 4- No. 1 being a side elevation of the machine.

No. 2, a. detached portion of the rear end thereof, representing. principally, the inside of' the improved raking-device employed.

No. 3, a view of the outside ofthe same; and

No. 4, an end elevation ofthe upper part of the' said machine, showing the improved apron-arrangement employed. i

The lett-ers of reference marked thereon indicating the same parts in all the drawings.

MyA invention consists, first, of a raking-device constructed with teeth that move or slide up and down in a suitabie frame by their own gravity, and independent of each other, in such manner as, when passing over the ground, each tootli will rise and fall with any uncvenness, thereby insuring the raking of the whole surface; second, in providing an apron or broad chute (constructed as will be explained) at the top of .the machine, for more eifectually guiding and delivering the hay, and without spilling, to be loaded.

The following vJiii enabie others skilled in the art to understand and construct tilesame.

' A, fig. 1, is an axle-tree or 'slm/ft, mounted on a pair of driving-wheels, On said shaft is built a polygonal reel, C. D is another shaft provided with a similar reel, E.v 'Ihis iatter shaft and reel are supported, in the elevated position shown in the figure, by two ,long side rails, F,the lower ends of which rest on the axles of the lower shaft A. The said rails are held together by ties G G and cross-b1jaees H H, and are further strengthcned by the brace-rods H', attached to the frame hereinafter mentioned. I is a pair ofjointed or linked bands, the joints or links being of a length corresponding to the sides of the said polygonal reels. Across said bands is secured, at intervals, a. suiicient number of conveyors, J, cach carrying four o1' more tines K, and are so arranged on the conveycrs as to pass clear of the teeth of the raking-device, hereafter mentioned, and the iingers of the pivoted apron, hereafter described. Supported on the axles of shaft A, by arched standards L, are two sides, L', of a framework, which unite at the forward end, forming a tongue, M. The rear ends of said sides L are each bent or turned, forming return parts N. These return parts support a frame, N1, the con struction of which is seen in tig. 2. Pivoted on the-extreme ends of said return parts is the raking-dcvice (before referred to) as shown at NZ, fig. 2. This saidraking-device is constructed thus: Two side pieces, 0, are secured to a head, P. The lower ends of said side pieces are mortised into a rail, Q, on the ends of which are journals, R. The upper and lower portions of said head, P, are provided with a series of holes, through which the set or series of long rake-teeth S is passed, and is prevented from slipping entirely out by pins T. Thus the said rake-teeth have a slide movement equal tothe height of the head P. The frame or head ofthe said raking-device, it will be seen on reference to figs. 1 and 2, is held in position so as to allow, the teeth to. stand at an angle of forty-dre degrees, or thereabout. The arm TZ, which is supported on a short standard, T1,

on the said frame N1, will hold itin the required position by the pendent rods T3 and Near the top of each of the long side rails F, fig. 1, ere secured supports U. To these is pivoted an apron or broad chute, Ui, (before referred to.) Said apron is provided with deep turned-up sides U2, and a series of fingers U3, on its upper portion, as represented in iig. 4. Said apron is suspended in proper position by cords W W. v

The operation is as follows: Themachine is attached to the rear under part of the hay-wagon by the tongue M, and is drawn over the eld in any direction the scattered hay may happen to lie, without reference to windrows. IAS fast as the hay accumulates forward ofthe rake, it is taken up by the fingers of the conveyers to tho top ofthe machine, when it drops on the apron, which holds it, without falling or spilling from the sides, until `removed to the load by the attendant.

It will be seen that my arrangement of employing a series of independent and self-adjusting rake-teeth must necessarily result in raking the iield clean, as all the hollows or depressions of the ground are efectnally reached.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1. The raking-device herein describ,ed,.consistng of the series of movable and independent rake-teeth S, rake-head P, provided with apertures, side pieces O O, rail Q, journals R R, stop-pins T, arm T2, and pendent rods T3 T4, all arranged and operating as and for the purpose herein specified.-

2. The said raking-device, constructed as herein described, in combination with the conveyers J, provided with sets oflines K and bonds I, as and for the purpose set forth.

`3.- The pivoted apron or broad chute U1, constructed with a' series of fingers, U1, and turned-up sides U2, supports U, and cords W, arranged and operating as and for the purpose specified.

` HENRY KEWLEY.

Witnesses:y

J. F. SINGLE, M. S. HARVEY. 

